Dear friends of NCSE,
The bill to unblock the NGSS in Wyoming is awaiting the governor's
signature. A Darwin Day resolution was filed in Pennsylvania, while in
Indiana the antiscience bill is dead. And NCSE is seeking two interns
for the summer.

Dear friends of NCSE,
The effort to unblock the Next Generation Science Standard in Wyoming
continues. Antiscience bills in Montana and South Dakota are dead, but
are Utah's new science standards in trouble? Plus Darwin Day
resolutions are introduced in the Arizona House of Representatives and
the United States Senate. And -- speaking of which -- a reminder about
Darwin Day.

Dear friends of NCSE,
A Darwin Day resolution is introduced in Congress. A new survey
compares acceptance of climate change and of evolution on the part of
scientists and the general public. Montana's antiscience bill hits the
headlines. Plus news and more news from Scotland, NCSE thanks its
supporting organizations, and a reminder about Darwin Day.

Dear friends of NCSE,
NCSE is seeking to hire a Director of Community Organizing and
Research. Plus a busy week in statehouses across the country: the
fourth antiscience bill of 2015 appeared in South Dakota, the bill to
unblock the NGSS advanced in Wyoming, the fifth antiscience bill of
2015 is imminent in Montana, and the third antiscience bill of 2015
appeared in Oklahoma. Plus a new issue of RNCSE, kudos to David
Morrison, and a reminder about Darwin Day.

Dear friends of NCSE,
Progress in Wyoming. News and more news about antiscience legislation
in Indiana. Plus congratulations to Richard Lewontin, a Facebook
milestone for NCSE, and a reminder about Darwin Day.

Dear friends of NCSE,
The creationist lawsuit against the NGSS is back. Plus discouraging
signs from West Virginia, where the treatment of climate in new state
science standards was compromised, but encouraging signs from Wyoming,
where a bill to repeal the ban on adoption of the Next Generation
Science Standards was filed.

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Antievolutionists Say the Darndest Things

Antievolutionists often express outrage over alleged incivility from those who oppose their efforts to evade the establishment clause of the First Amendment. But they have no difficulty in dishing out the abuse themselves. Here is a sample from the Invidious Comparisons thread that documents egregious behavior on the part of the religious antievolution advocates.

IDC advocate Phillip E. Johnson:

Gould’s uncomfortable situation reminds me of the self-created predicament of Mikhail Gorbachev in the last years of the Soviet Empire. Gorbachev recognized that something had gone wrong with the Communist system, but thought that the system itself could be preserved if it was reformed. His democratic friends warned him that the Marxist fundamentalists would inevitably turn against him, but he was unwilling to endanger his position in the ruling elite by following his own logic to its necessary conclusion. Gould, like Gorbachev, deserves immense credit for bringing glasnost to a closed society of dogmatists. And, like Gorbachev, he lives on as a sad reminder of what happens to those who lack the nerve to make a clean break with a dying theory.